Run > Race

I can maybe blame my lack of sleep and drinking the night before a bit, but the main issue was definitely my lack of training on hills. Unlike others' reports on RW, I found that the first hill was the worst, but that was mainly because I tried to blast up it, doing the first k in 4:15. Stupid. I knew things were bad when a guy asked me if I was ok at 1.5 k. But I'd relaxed/given up by the next loop, so the other hills felt a lot more comfortable and I blasted the last couple of kilometres, although the finishing strait is deceptively long and a combination of my laces coming undone and starting to puke - inevitably - finished me. 6 mins slower than my PB. I cried. It was very pretty, but I was hurting too much to look too closely. Fetch shirts were very thin on the ground. I saw none, and my injured, spectating friend only saw one. When she shouted 'Go, Fectch' at him, or something he looked confused! Very different from the North West, where I usually run.